Wanderer

Scientist, Science-lover, Traveler, Wild-life enthusiast, amateur photographer, Part-time blogger

[Wanderer @rajwizard]

Still a Nolan's fan but expected a grand epic war drama not turmoil of a lost man.
#theodyssey #Troy

[Wanderer @rajwizard]

@Fintech03 I am becoming fan of your storytelling. Great work, wonderful narration with deep emotions and blend of history.

[Wanderer @rajwizard]

@Fintech03 Swami Vivekananda, Tulsi Das, Rajaraja chola,

[Wanderer @rajwizard]

@PetroleumMin @indane_gas @karnataka_ioc
I have been trying since April to get a new connection but after online registration, KYC submission and multiple rounds of visit to local distributor, still no answer?
If there's no shortage then where are cylinders?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Every time you get a cancer biopsy, the lab makes a tissue slide that costs about $5. It shows the shape of your cells under a microscope, and every cancer patient already has one on file.

There’s a much fancier version of that test called multiplex immunofluorescence (basically a protein-level map showing which immune cells are near your tumor and what they’re doing). It costs thousands of dollars per sample, takes specialized equipment most hospitals don’t have, and barely scales. But it’s the kind of data oncologists need to figure out whether immunotherapy will actually work for you. Right now, only about 20 to 40% of cancer patients respond to immunotherapy, and one of the biggest reasons is that doctors can’t easily tell whether a tumor is “hot” (immune cells actively fighting it) or “cold” (immune system ignoring it).

Microsoft, Providence Health, and the University of Washington trained an AI to analyze the $5 slide and predict what the expensive test would show across 21 different protein markers. They called it GigaTIME, trained it on 40 million cells in which both the cheap slide and the expensive test coexisted, and then turned it loose on 14,256 real cancer patients across 51 hospitals in 7 US states.

The results landed in Cell, one of the most selective journals in biology. The model generated about 300,000 virtual protein maps covering 24 cancer types and 306 subtypes. It found 1,234 real, verified connections between immune cell behavior, genetic mutations, tumor staging, and patient survival that were previously invisible at this scale. When they tested it against a completely separate database of 10,200 cancer patients, the results matched up almost perfectly (0.88 out of 1.0 agreement).

Nature Methods named spatial proteomics (mapping where specific proteins sit inside your tissue) its Method of the Year in 2024, and specifically cited GigaTIME in a March 2026 update as a model that “democratizes” this kind of analysis. The full model is open-source on Hugging Face. Any cancer research lab with archived biopsy slides, and most of them have thousands, can now run virtual immune profiling without buying a single piece of new equipment.

[Wanderer @rajwizard]

@Fintech03 It's stockholm syndrome, after centuries of cultural and intellectual enslavement. We doubt/criticise any thing indigenous and appreciate everything foreign.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Yesterday I shared a list of contributions from our ancient knowledge traditions. What followed was fascinating, no curiosity, no debate, Just a barrage of mockery, mostly from our own people.

The irony is hard to miss. A civilization that produced centuries of mathematics, medicine, philosophy & statecraft now has its own children convinced that nothing of value ever came from it.

Anyway, whether one likes it or not, today also India is building, launching, manufacturing & innovating at a scale that is difficult to ignore. Here is the proof (I can keep going on but sharing a few):

- Digantara’s SCOT satellite: 1 of the world’s 1st commercial space-based orbital surveillance systems for real-time tracking of debris & satellites
- CSIR-NBRI developed the world’s 1st pink bollworm-resistant GM cotton variety approved for commercial use
- Only the 4th country ever to demonstrate fully autonomous in-orbit satellite docking + inter-satellite power transfer
- India commissioned 2 dedicated quantum chip fabrication facilities (IIT Bombay for quantum sensors + IISc BLR for superconducting/photonic/spin qubits) with ₹720 crore investment ending foreign-fab dependence for quantum hardware.
- India achieved full indigenous Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology for high-power radar, electronic warfare, and 5G/6G systems (DRDO breakthrough, only Russia & a handful of nations have sovereign GaN at this level).
- GalaxEye’s Mission Drishti: World’s 1st private multi-sensor (SAR + optical fusion) Earth observation satellite
- 1st country in Global South to build dedicated quantum materials labs for fault-tolerant computing (INOX + IISc collaboration).
- India now has end-to-end sovereign quantum hardware pipeline (design + fabrication + processors)...only the US, China, and Europe have comparable domestic chains.
- Indigenous 5G standalone core + radio access network stack developed entirely by TCS + C-DOT + Tejas Networks & deployed in remote villages.
- Largest vaccine manufacturing capacity on the planet - Serum Institute (still holds the title by volume).
- 1st private-sector quantum valley - Amaravati Quantum Valley foundation laid (2026)
- Vyommitra - World’s 1st humanoid robot "specifically" for uncrewed Gaganyaan precursor missions (female form, emotional AI).
- World’s largest deployment of plastic-waste roads - Prof. Vasudevan’s patented technology (used across dozens of cities, no other country matches the scale)
- 1st country to fast-track 5 indigenous SMRs by 2033 under new policy.
- World’s largest single-piece Inconel rocket engine
- India’s 1st indigenous CRISPR-based gene therapy - BIRSA 101 for sickle cell disease
- India’s 1st fully indigenous CAR-T cell therapy for B-cell blood cancers (ACTREC-Tata Memorial + IIT Bombay + ImmunoACT)..Also, world's most affordable
- world's most advanced liquid/injectable cornea regeneration approaches (not a full artificial cornea implant like others)..

I can keep going on....

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

Imagine losing your eyesight… and being told the only hope is a donor transplant that may never come.

Now, scientists from a Bengaluru biotech startup are testing something remarkable — a “liquid cornea” that could help the eye repair and regrow itself.

Scroll down to see how this Indian innovation could help millions see again. >>

#MedicalInnovation #IndianStartups #Biotech #InnovationIndia

[Liquid Cornea, Kuragenx, Pandorum Technologies, Corneal Blindness, Innovation India]

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: A petri dish of human brain cells just learned to play DOOM

[Deedy @deedydas]

I grew up reading Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda: two legendary Bengali detective series that almost no one outside India knows.

Now all ~70 novels are translated to English and free to read on https://t.co/BptYoi1cTo.

My goal: build the world’s internet library. Every great book, in English, free forever.

We shipped 10x more books in the last 48 hrs. Follow @grandoldbooks for more.

[Wanderer @rajwizard]

@Fintech03 Perception speaks louder than projection.
Cadaver-derived corneal stroma (decellularised) limits scale and can lead to late graft failure.
Kuragenx: a next-gen bioengineered liquid cornea designed to serve patients beyond genetic, age and gender barriers.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

The science of fetal microchimerism should have broken the internet by now.

It hasn’t.

When I read about a research I was so curious to know what’s actually happening.

Fetal cells — carrying the child’s own DNA — cross into the mother’s bloodstream during pregnancy and never fully leave. They embed into her organs. Her heart muscle. Her brain tissue.

Researchers have found a child’s living cells inside mothers in their 90s, from pregnancies six decades old. The child left the womb. The cells didn’t.

And they don’t just sit there. They migrate toward damage. Women with heart injuries show fetal cells concentrated at the wound site. Women with thyroid disease show their children’s cells inside the affected tissue.

The body that built the child gets tended to, in return, by the child’s own cells. Nobody designed this consciously. Evolution quietly built a repair system out of the mother-child bond itself.

The brain side of this is equally staggering. Pregnancy triggers gray matter reorganization — a structural rewiring that sharpens threat detection, deepens empathy, fundamentally alters how a mother processes the world. These changes persist for years after birth.

Possibly permanently. A mother’s nervous system doesn’t return to its factory settings. It was updated by the experience of carrying another person, and that update sticks.

The part worth sitting with longest — women who experienced pregnancy loss carry fetal cells too. The cellular merging doesn’t require a birth. It doesn’t require years of raising someone. Those cells remain regardless of what happened after. A mother grieving a child she never brought home is grieving someone biologically still present inside her. The world consistently underestimates that grief. The science says we have no business doing that.

Mothers always knew the connection didn’t end at birth.

Turns out it doesn’t end at the cellular level either.

[Vivek Singh @VivekSi85847001]

Man this is just insane, Olympic level opening ceremony in a random event in Assam, India 🇮🇳

Bird eye view makes it even more amazing 🧐

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This speed reading training starts at 300 words per minute and end at 900 wpm.

Can you read them all?
https://t.co/k6RL254J54

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Not all robots walk on two legs.

Aletta is a robot that makes drawing blood completely automated.

We live in the future

[Ayurveda With Shyam @shyam_ayurved]

Amazing this video is made of AI but it is very good. You should all see it.⚡️

[Re-energising Your Career @career_re]

#AcademicTwitter😂#phdvoice #PhDlife

[GemsOfINDOLOGY @GemsOfINDOLOGY]

Did you know Delhi’s winter pollution isn’t caused by Diwali fireworks, but by agricultural laws that changed how farmers grow rice? 🌾

Few know that the Punjab and Haryana Preservation of Subsoil Water Acts (2009) are major reasons behind the smog choking Delhi every winter. ☁️

Curious how? Dive into this short #Thread. 🔍

[Tetsuhiro Harimoto @TetsuHarimoto]

I’ll be starting a lab as an Assistant Professor @CornellEng @Cornell_CBE in 2026!

We’ll combine synthetic biology and materials science to engineer microbes into living materials & therapies.

Recruiting PhD students & postdocs - please get in touch!

🔗https://t.co/XpDxeNzI0W